After the second consecutor of Victory “Karabakh” over Almaty Kairatom and the historic release of the Azerbaijani club in the playoffs of the conference league, the team of Gurban Gurbanov received an excellent press with us, but also in Kazakhstan.
However, the main assessment is the words of the distinguished Kurban Berdiyev. Mentor “Kairata”, twice brought Kazan “Rubin” to the championship in Russia, who beat with the team from Tatarstan “Barcelona” and withdrawing modest “Rostov” to the group stage of the Champions League, is usually a few and a meager for praise. But after yesterday’s defeat, he made a remarkable compliment of “Karabakh”.
“In my opinion,” Karabakh “is stronger than” sheriff “, he may turn into high stages,” that way, according to the correspondents of the publication Vesti.kz, Berdiev described the Azerbaijani team.
“Sheriff”, if someone does not know, plotted in shock all of Europe. The Moldavian team for the first time made his way into the group stage of the Champions League and started there simply enjoyed, having won two victories – over the Ukrainian Shakhtar (2: 0) and Madrid “Real” (2: 1). If the most experienced Kurban Bekievich believes that “Karabakh” is stronger than the winners of the Royal Club, then it says a lot.
And this is already writes the author Vesti.kz: “It is worth recognizing,” Karabakh “appeared more trained, tactically competent and prepared by the team. But it is necessary to understand that Gurbanov has been working in the team for many years, and therefore the gameplay is debugged at such a level. . “Karabakh” showed himself a very flexible team who knows how to open the opponent’s position (it was in the first match), and to fly out in the counterattack. “Karabakh” can be compared in terms of the level with the “Tsrug Star” and “Basel”, but even They are not so diverse in their functionality, although it is precisely on the quality of players “Karabakh” is inferior to both Serbs and Swiss. “
Recall, “Karabakh” beat “Kairat” twice with a score of 2: 1. Yesterday’s victory guaranteed the team of Gurban Gurbanov. One of the first two places in the group, which means that for the first time in the history of Azerbaijani football brought our club in the winter-spring stage of the playoffs of European Cups. True, relax is still early. It is very important to take the 1st place in the group. In this case, “Karabakh” will directly fall into 1/8 finals. If the agg of the first line with the Swiss Basel, will play 1/16 finals with one of the teams that have occupied 3-places in the Europa League groups.
Now the “Karabakh” 10 points, and the “Basel” – 8. Two tour left. In the 5th round “Karabakh” will play houses with the Cyprus “Omonia”, and in the 6th 6th will visit on, perhaps the decisive match with the “Basel”.